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You might not know this, but Scientific American is a great place to go for book recommendations,

and not just for nonfiction science titles either. Our team is packed with voracious readers,

and we publish lists of our favorites at the end of every year. You can also get book recommendations

every Friday in our daily newsletter, Today in Science.

Now that summer is in full swing, we thought it would be fun to chat about some of our favorite

beach reads for the year. Today, I'm joined by Bree Kane, Scientific Americans resident reader,

to go through some of her top picks for summer reading across a whole range of genres.

Bree, thanks so much for coming on to chat with us. Would you start by just telling our listeners a little bit about what you do at Siam and, of course, how it involves books?

Well, my day job is helping our contractors, writers, and illustrators with their contracts and their invoices.

But as everyone in the office knows, I'm constantly bullying people into reading more books

and shoving books in their hands.

Yes.

And we love it.

We love that you do that.

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